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Table 4 Infectious complications

From: Tailored immunosuppression after kidney transplantation - a single center real-life experience

 

Type of induction therapya

 

No induction

(n = 99)

Basiliximab

(n = 46)

Thymoglobulin

(n = 47)

P-value

Bacterial infection, n (%)

35 (36.8)

13 (28.9)

16 (36.4)

0.633

Viremia, n (%)

 Cytomegalovirus

59 (61.5)

17 (37.0)

23 (51.1)

0.023

 BK Polyomavirus

25 (26.0)

15 (32.6)

17 (37.8)

0.346

Hospitalisation due to

Infection, n (%)

37 (38.9)

14 (31.1)

18 (40.9)

0.581

  1. aCombinations of different induction therapies (n = 4) and induction with rituximab (n = 7) were not included in the statistical evaluation because of the small number